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For other uses, see The Graduate (disambiguation).Mike Nichols, based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote the piece shortly after graduating from Williams College.Robinson (Anne Bancroft) and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).Ben Braddock shortly after earning his bachelor's degree from an unnamed college in the Northeast.Benjamin escapes from each person who comes to congratulate him, exposing his seeming embarrassment at all the honors he had won at college.Robinson's first name (or, indeed, the first names of any of Benjamin's and Elaine's parents) during the course of the film (in the novel, we are told that the initial of Mrs.Robinson's first name is G).Arriving at her home, she pleads for him to come inside, saying that she doesn't like to enter a dark house.Benjamin is clearly uncomfortable with sexuality, but he is drawn into the affair with the older, but still attractive, Mrs.Meanwhile Benjamin is hounded by his father to select a graduate school to attend.Whether out of fear of Mrs.However, because of the three parents' persistent intervention, he is essentially forced to date her.He drives recklessly, practically ignoring Elaine, and then takes her to a strip club where she is openly humiliated and silently begins to cry.His affair is discovered and, although he follows Elaine to the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a student, he is barred from seeing Elaine any further.However, Benjamin, believing (with some justification) that she loves him, refuses to give up hope, despite warnings from Mrs.Robinson and threats of arrest from Mr.In the famous conclusion of the film, Benjamin undertakes a desperate drive across a distance of many miles to somehow head off Elaine's wedding.He arrives just as the bride and groom are exchanging vows, and stands looking down at the couple from an upper window.This does not garner much response at first, but when Elaine gives the return cry "Ben!"After a violent struggle with Elaine's parents and wedding guests (Ben armed only with a large cross), Ben and Elaine escape on a public bus.As the soundtrack fades into Simon and Garfunkel, Ben's smile fades to an enigmatic neutral expression as he gazes forward into the bus.As Elaine looks at Ben's expression she also takes on a neutral gaze.Cast
Anne Bancroft as Mrs.Robinson
Dustin Hoffman as Ben Braddock
Katharine Ross as Elaine Robinson
William Daniels as Mr.Braddock
Murray Hamilton as Mr.Screenplay
The original screenplay had the movie opening with Benjamin delivering a valedictory speech at his college commencement.At that point a gust of wind blows his note sheets off the podium leaving Benjamin unable to explain what it was all about.This foreshadowing was not included in the movie and the opening scenes show Benjamin on the airplane as it lands, then standing on the moving walkway in the airport terminal looking lost and forlorn.However, the idea was used for the opening of the film Reality Bites (1994).Robert Redford tested for the part, but he and director Mike Nichols decided they needed someone who appeared more uncomfortable with his sexuality.Burt Ward was also offered the role of Benjamin, only to decline because he chose to renew his contract with the Batman television series, subsequently becoming typecast as Robin the Boy Wonder; he has openly regretted turning down the part.Charles Grodin also tested for the role.Ross' screen test with Grodin is a special feature on the Laserdisc release, although Grodin's lines were overdubbed at his request.Actress and singer Doris Day was also approached to play Mrs.Anne Bancroft, whose character is in her early 40s, was only 6 years older than Hoffman in real life.Similarly, Katharine Ross, who played her daughter, was only 9 years younger than Bancroft.The Graduate was the breakthrough role for Hoffman, whose sole previous film role was in The Tiger Makes Out (1967).In the Berkeley boarding house where Benjamin ends up living, the landlord is played by Norman Fell, who would later gain fame as landlord "Mr.Richard Dreyfuss has his first role in this movie, a small and uncredited one, and only one line: "Shall I get the cops?Elsewhere and as teacher extraordinaire George Feeny in the 1990s sitcom Boy Meets World.Elizabeth Wilson, who played Benjamin's mother, Mrs.Murray Hamilton, who played Mr.The pairing was somewhat coincidental, for Ghostly would go on to costar on the sitcom Bewitched, in a role largely designed to replace Lorne's character when that actress died in May 1968.Filming
Some of the exterior shots of Benjamin on the campus were actually filmed on the campus of the University of Southern California.Other scenes were filmed on the Berkeley campus, on Durant Avenue in Berkeley, and on Telegraph Avenue as well.In one shot, the Alfa Romeo is going west on the upper deck of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, although Hoffman is supposed to be on his way to Berkeley, which is to the east.The hotel scenes were filmed at the famed Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel in which US Senator and Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was assassinated the year after the film's release.While supposedly on his way to interrupt Elaine's wedding in Santa Barbara, California, Ben is shown driving through a tunnel on US highway 101.The Robinson House was located on North Palm Dr.The Graduate Original Soundtrack album cover.Simon and Garfunkel, whose soundtrack album (The Graduate Original Soundtrack), on the strength of the hit single "Mrs.Robinson", rose to the top of the charts in 1968 (knocking off The Beatles' White Album).However, the complete song does not appear in the movie or on the album; short fragments are featured instead.The full version of "Mrs.Garfunkel's music while shooting the film.Lawrence Turman, his producer, made a deal for Simon to write three new songs for the movie.He did play him a few notes of a new song he had been working on; "It's not for the movie...Linda Gray went on to play the role of Mrs.Robinson in the stage version of The Graduate in the West End and on Broadway.Awards and recognition
Hoffman earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as did Bancroft and Ross.Mike Nichols won the Academy Award for Best Director.In 1996, The Graduate was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".Stage adaptation
John Reid produced a play in 2000, adapted from the movie, which was a hit both in London's West End and on Broadway and has toured the United States.Several actresses have starred as Mrs.Robinson, including Kathleen Turner, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Hall, Morgan Fairchild, Anne Archer, Vera Fischer and Linda Gray.The Broadway production in 2002 starred Kathleen Turner, Jason Biggs, and Alicia Silverstone.Possibility of sequel
Charles Webb has written a sequel to his original novel entitled Home School, but initially refused to publish it in its entirety because of a contract he signed in the 1960s.When he sold film rights to The Graduate, he also surrendered the rights to any sequels.If he were to publish Home School, Canal+, the French media company that owns the rights to The Graduate, would be able to adapt it for the screen without his permission.Extracts of Home School were printed in The Times on May 2, 2006.The novel was released in Britain in 2007.The Graduate, plays a screenwriter (himself, in fact, as Buck Henry was a screenwriter on the original film) attempting to pitch a sequel to The Graduate to a Hollywood producer.Influence
Some scenes in The Graduate have influenced other works even decades after its release, and have been widely parodied.For example, a family friend gives Benjamin career advice consisting of one word: "Plastics."This scene has been referenced and parodied many times, even in video games.Volunteers in Service to America, aka "the domestic Peace Corps").In the poster, a dark picture of Dustin Hoffman as the confused Benjamin Braddock is captioned "Plastics Can Wait a Year", (join V.Anne Bancroft's line in response "Would you like me to seduce you?Is that what you're trying to tell me?"The car that Benjamin drives in the film is a red 1966 Alfa Romeo Spider 1600 "Duetto".The Graduate gave rise to the Spider's fame and longevity, to the point that Alfa Romeo marketed the car in the States as the 'Alfa Graduate'.The climactic drive to the church and Benjamin's bursting in and stealing Elaine away has been parodied many times on television and in film.The 1993 comedy film Waynes World 2 pays homage to The Graduate with a sequence where Wayne attempts to stop his girlfriend Cassandra (Tia Carerre) from marrying her producer (Christopher Walken) by driving his car until it runs out of gas, stopping for directions (with a cameo by Charlton Heston), and running up to the balcony of the church pounding on the glass and calling out Cassandra's name.Graduate did as Ben interrupted Elaine's wedding.In 2005, Rob Reiner released Rumor Has It...Jennifer Aniston plays the daughter of a family from Pasadena.When she realizes that it was her family who inspired Charles Webb to write The Graduate, she seeks out Benjamin Braddock's character, whose name is Beau Burroughs, played by Kevin Costner.Criticism
In his book The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker criticizes the film, saying that it taught an entire generation of American men that the way to gain favor with a woman is pursue them at all costs and ignore them when they say they are not interested, and that this has romanticized stalkers.While a great deal of scholarship is devoted to this film, the most prominent themes critics tend to focus on are those of gender relations as well as the more generalized historical context of the film, coming as it did in the 1960s at a time when the generation gap was quite pronounced.Linda Gray at the Internet Broadway Database.Official site
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Graduate student, a student studying in a graduate school.The Graduate, a novel by Charles Webb made into a film in 1967 directed by Mike Nichols.The Graduate, a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb."Graduate" (song), a song by Third Eye Blind
Graduated cylinder, a container with graduated markings used for measuring liquids.Graduate (band), the band that Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith were in before forming Tears for Fears.High school graduate, someone who has completed high school (in the U.This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.This page was last modified on 21 February 2008, at 20:06.Note: some videos not suitable for minors may still appear in search results.The video has been added to your playlist.Thank you for sharing this video!Change this to see only comments above a certain value.Change the value of a comment by clicking on a thumb.I'm still thinking, it's more dramatic or more funny?Robinson, You're Trying To Seduce Me ?!Beautifull movie and beautifull song, i love this part.After all these years of hearing that song, I never gleaned the meaning from the lyrics."To Emily, Wherever I May Find Her."Great story, he's one of my favorite actors!..He was great in this movie...Loved his work in "St Elsewhere"....Would you like to comment?Sly 96 fm will be here live and they'll be giving away tons of free prizes."Thursday is Country Night with DJ Richy Rich ..."Fridays are Noche Caliente (or Hot Latin Nights) ..."
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